The course has been set up as an introductory course for care ethics. The point of departure is its feminist roots, its contrast to different approaches of ethics and its international development since its conceptual origin. In a structured way we think through what care and care ethics are, we analyze certain key terms of care ethics like ‘relationality’, ‘dependency’, ‘context’, ‘justice’ and ‘emotions’, and look at (the nature of and problems in) concrete care practices. How does care ethics enable us to identify and reframe problems in a different way than in mainstream social sciences and in (bio-)ethical approaches?
After completion of the course ZEB-10 students are able to:
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World View-, Academic and Professional Education
This course offers a critical theoretical framework that can be made fruitful and yield results in many professional contexts.
Brief explanation of cohesion with other courses
In this introductory course a theoretical framework is constructed that forms the basis of and is further elaborated on in the other parts of the Master.
Format
A combination of lectures, interactive plenary sessions, and small group assignments.
Relation between theory and practice
This is a theoretical introductory course. However, certain linkages with practice will be made explicit during the course.
Relation between education and research
The results of our research are strongly integrated and presented in the whole master program, including this course.